Sentence examples for class respectable from inspiring English sources

He talks to a few members of the area's old working class, respectable and otherwise.

But with a (for this class) respectable 16 city/21 highway EPA miles per gallon rating, maybe today's wallet-watching gasoline buyers will happily sacrifice a little power for economy.

Clifford Durr wanted to get the case dismissed, but E.D. Nixon saw the opportunity to use Mrs. Parks' case as an ideal middle class, respectable plaintiff to challenge segregation.

She is young, middle-class, respectable and sexually inexperienced – preferably a virgin.

But Pearson was already a veteran actor on stage and screen, often taking middle-class, "respectable" roles as detectives, MPs, vicars and doctors – and was adept at showing the vulnerability of such apparently "solid" characters.

Damian's family weren't like my family – respectable working-class.

Suddenly, tattoos are mainstream, middle class and respectable.

"Middle class, professional, respectable, high achievers, self-help types," he said.

Then-City Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman highlighted the social and economic issues at play, asking "What would happen if it was a person who wasn't middle class and respectable?

It also reminds you that I'm middle-class and respectable, because no one's really interested in working-class or foreign prostitutes.

The novillero, or novice, may even pay to get into the ring, which varies in status: just seven are deemed top-class and 43 respectable second-class.